Twin Cities Pagan Pride feels strongly about supporting our local community and about making sustainable choices wherever possible. We welcome additional suggestions.
T-shirts:
We spent a long time hunting for a t-shirt screening option that could provide ethically made shirts – and we were delighted to find Skreened. Please note: the women’s sizes run small (check measurements carefully and order a size larger if you’ve got questions) and we recommend the current multicolor designs on a lighter color shirt (we liked the pale yellow and silver a lot.)
Skreened got a lot more information in their ethics statement but in brief:
- Shirts are made by American Apparel: they are made in the United States by employees paid a fair wage.
- They use a variety of environmentally friendly practices – everything from office recycling to minimal packaging to water-based inks.
- They give 10% of their profits each month to charitable causes.
- They offer organically grown cotton options (though we do wish they had a wider range of sizes for these shirts).
Web hosting:
We host the tcpaganpride.org site at Drak.net, which has an extensive history of hosting non-profit and grassroots websites (at any given time, up to 25% of their clients are hosted for free or at discount rates.) They also buy solar energy equivalent to their energy use, recycle and minimize paper at all stages of the business, and have an ongoing series of grants funded with user fees at Kiva (a microloan project.)
Food donations:
Part of every Pagan Pride event is a food drive. Each year, we donate the food to a local food pantry.